STORMWATCH: STORM OF THE DECADE: MONSTER STORM: IT IS A STORM: storm!!!

 
THIS JUST IN: The Oregonian tells us a “Monster Storm” (AKA”Storm of the Decade”) will be hitting Oregon tomorrow. “The drama starts Saturday as small storm spins into the region from the North,” intones The O. Drama! Saturday!
THE BIGGER PICTURE: So THIS is what the striking WGA writers have been doing to [...]

LAME POST: A funny joke

A funny joke to do:
Walk up to the counter at a McDonald’s and say “Can I take your order?”

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: Blogger’s Block

Please stand by
 
Feeling kind of bogged down by intense end-of-semester homework.  Creativity sapped.  Stand by.

MY LIFE: Birthdays

 

My birthday is coming up on November 23rd. It got me thinking of all the birthdays in the past, and mainly how these birthdays have affected my own life.
FATHER
Growing up, I used to skip school on my father’s birthday and my grandmother would to take me to visit him at the Zoo, which [...]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Free fur coat, assembly required

(via oregonlive)
The Oregon Humane Society has run out of room for cats and is hoping that the public will raise a paw to help.
“We’ve run out of room at the inn when it comes to cats,” said OHS Executive Director Sharon Harmon. “We’re asking the public to adopt 100 cats by Thanksgiving so we can [...]

HOW TO END THE WAR: Peace Accords

Sen. Harry Reid: “A joke would be This easy to make about this picture.”
I have blogged in the past about a way to end the war. It didn’t work. Now I got a new one. Some congressional committee today published a report suggesting the war could end up costing $1.3 [...]

BLACKOUT 2007: The Aftermath.

So that live-blogging the Blackout thing didn’t really pan out in the end, because my laptop battery ran out exactly 10 minutes after the first post. Now the power is back on.
It was a moment of poignancy, though, when that last little sliver of power dropped out of the battery indicator and [...]

LIVE-BLOGGING: Blackout 2007

Above: live picture of the blackout
1:34 pm Well, the power just went out here at beautiful Reed College. And, chaos: The college’s president is scrambling around the quad distributing night-vision goggles to his favorite students. “You’ll need these when the wolves come,” he said. Three were killed when students [...]

THIS JUST IN: Let 1,000 Gphones Bloom

TOO CREEPY?
 
 
THIS JUST IN: You probably all know Google announced yesterday its open-source “android” mobile phone platform, which will provide a bunch of features like maps and the ability to accidentally stumble upon a bunch of gross porn via Google Image Search on the bus. Contrary to a lot of speculation, though, Google is [...]

POLL: That last joke

POLL: Did that last joke cross kind some kind of line?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Doesn’t matter because it wasn’t funny.
D) This is your Mom; I’m very disappointed in you.